Mr Dyke said with hindsight he wished he had launched an inquiry into Andrew Gilligan's Radio 4 Today programme report when Mr Campbell first "went ballistic", rather than rushing to respond.

That left the charge open for some independent body to examine. Not a mistake our Biffer Balding would make.

Then he made the mistake of walking out the door of his Board's post-Hutton meeting, leaving them free to decide they didn't want him back:

Mr Dyke said he had told the board: "'If I haven't got your confidence, I can't stay'. ... "At that stage I left the room. An hour or so later I discovered they had decided to suggest I leave. I'd offered it - that was it."

You can see why this man was popular with his staff.

Now he wants to lead the staff conspiracy theorists from outside the gate:

The moment the BBC starts kowtowing to government, you might as well close it down - it's as simple as that .

But what do you do when the BBC becomes a political campaigner, unable or unwilling to behave professionally?

Thousands of BBC staff have paid for an advert in a national newspaper supporting their former director general, Greg Dyke. ... The advert said: "Greg Dyke stood for brave independent and rigorous BBC journalism that was fearless in its search for the truth".